Comments on: Comments on 1893

Post number 1893

Neale — Tue, 30 May 2000 23:13:42 -0800

Woohoo Metafilter! 1000 members and counting! Long live The Haughey!

By: Zeldman

Zeldman — Wed, 31 May 2000 00:06:13 -0800

Congratulations, Matt. The trick is to see how big you can get and still stay good. At least, I've always heard that's the trick. Jay Chiat said it. 1980.

By: sylloge

sylloge — Wed, 31 May 2000 01:49:17 -0800

Yeah, I kind of thought MetaFilter sucked since it got to about 364 users. That's when it started to go downhill. I used to read it a lot before then, but after that, y'know . . . ehn . . .

By: Markb

Markb — Wed, 31 May 2000 03:53:48 -0800

I found the content improved around 329, some of the comments were excellent, then around that 364 mark, well I just don't know what happened......

By: owen

owen — Wed, 31 May 2000 05:46:11 -0800

Gee, Grampa, tell us what it was like back in the old days! Is it true you had to send your post via pony express?

By: PWA_BadBoy

PWA_BadBoy — Wed, 31 May 2000 06:12:50 -0800

hrm... smells like there's some elitism going on here..... =P

By: jbeaumont

jbeaumont — Wed, 31 May 2000 09:34:12 -0800

Err, I think they're joking.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 31 May 2000 09:43:24 -0800

If I could be serious for a second... I thought more members would automatically mean the Tragedy of the Commons effect would kick in (where too many members leads to too much noise), but there's been a sort of Metcalfe's Law working too (the conversations are richer because of the diversity of opinions). I suppose there's really some happy medium, like in the >1000 but <5000 range that lets good conversations grow without too many idiots ruining them.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 31 May 2000 09:57:19 -0800

I can't hear you over the noise of 10000 fingers typing.

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Wed, 31 May 2000 10:49:45 -0800

"shouldn't this be in MetaTalk?" bwahahah... I always wanted to say that ;)

By: Almac

Almac — Wed, 31 May 2000 13:45:22 -0800

From the First MetaFilter Member to the Thousandth MetaMember - Hell, - We're All Special and Damn, Where's my MeFi T-Shirt?

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 31 May 2000 16:23:31 -0800

I got curious. A lot of the early member numbers don't have any info associated. The first "real" one I could find was jjg, followed by glassdog, then a break until peterme & cam. But you already knew that, didn't you? I should have joined much earlier. 654 is so unsexy.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 31 May 2000 18:08:03 -0800

Well it was ruined around 100 or so anyways.... :)

By: EricBrooksDotCom

EricBrooksDotCom — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 05:23:43 -0800

MetaFilter RoCkS!!!! Come on out, Matt, take a bow.

By: plinth

plinth — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 10:44:38 -0800

Phew. I was user 549. For a second I thought I was single-handedly responsible for the decline of MeFi content. Now I know that the decline is indeed a group effort. Go team!